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LUCKY RED - CLAUDIA CRAVENS KARTONIERT (TB)

A good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story' Sara Novic A feminist coming-of-age
tale from a debut author - playful  feminist historical fiction for readers of Sarah Waters 
Charles Portis and Anna North In the summer of 1877  Bridget is orphaned when her unreliable
father succumbs to a snakebite as they're crossing the Kansas prairie. Arriving in Dodge City
as a penniless orphan  she's quickly recruited for work at the Buffalo Queen brothel and
befriends her bookish mentor Constance  securing her home and employment as the favourite of
Sheriff's Deputy Jim Bonnie. As winter creeps in from the plains  female gunfighter Spartan Lee
rides into town  and Bridget falls in love with her the moment their paths cross. Their affair
threatens the balance of power at the Queen  but is interrupted when an old flame returns to
the brothel  setting off a series of double-crosses that result in the destruction of the
Buffalo Queen and a searing heartbreak for Bridget. Their lives in ruins  Bridget  Constance
and Lila resolve to take revenge on those who wronged them - but will they succeed in their
mission? In a misogynistic world of outlaws and gunfights  nothing is certain . . . A sharply
realised  caustically witty and often moving revisionist depiction of frontier life that
explores through its feminist heroine queer love  female friendships and the idea of a 'found'
family in a page-turning romp of a female revenge thriller. 'This is storytelling that grinds
its characters in its grip  then throws them into the air to take wondrous flight. I loved it
to bits.' Shelley Parker-Chan 'Lucky Red made for such cinematic reading that I forgot it was a
book!' Frances Cha

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